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Absolutely spot on. You created something gorgeously Rococo--and   truly connected to the power of particularly women artists like Vigee-LeBrun. In 1830 she said, "It is so difficult today to explain the urbane charm, the easy grace, in short all those pleasing manners which, forty years ago, were the delight of Parisian society. The sort of gallantry I am describing has totally disappeared. Women reigned supreme then; the Revolution dethroned them.”  I think you may have gone some way to putting women back on the throne.

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Portrait of Jeannine by Alexus Crockett

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Heavily inspired by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun’s style of paintings, for her ability to paint portraits of women evokes the essence of what Rococo painting was at the time. She depicted her subjects, usually women of power, in a regal manner, but also made them appear graceful and delicate. I am in love with the vision of seeing such powerful women being portrayed as so, but also being shown as soft and beautiful - attributes that can be seen negatively as “weak.” In my final, I want to invoke that same feeling of power, beauty, and gracefulness in a woman of color. Black women have been so negatively stereotyped as being “angry” and “loud” and are not often seen in or given a position of power. I’m choosing to portray a Black woman posed and dressed in the same fashion as 1700 France because they also existed in that time and place but most likely as a servant to the women who were the usual subject of these portrait paintings. I also plain of incorporating flowers within this painting, to also reference not only Jean-Marc Nattier who painting many ladies holding flowers, but to gesture towards Rachel Ruysch, an influential female Dutch painter who painted still lifes of flowers during the Baroque period. Women weren’t allowed to study the human body during this time, so many of them worked with still lifes. Even in this restriction, Ruysch was able to paint such captivating still lifes of flowers that held as much personality as a figure or a portrait painting would. Flowers are also another image of “femininity.” With this final project I hope to pay homage to the art style of the Rococo time period, but also shed light on female empowerment, especially that of which focuses on women of color.

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Jean-Marc Nattier, 1685–1766, Portrait of a Lady, 1738, Rococo Movement

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Looking at more centered portraits of a Black female, with the backgrounds being nonexistent like in Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun's work. Also considering painting a scene similar to the fete balance style. Two lovers frolicking in a garden of sorts.

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Im considering these compositions, with a Black female subject. The final wouldn't have the vampire look in it, that is implied by the red ink in the sketches.

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You have a good idea, but you have not yet chosen or subject or sketched out your own ideas. That is what I most need right now.
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Who have you chosen for your subject? A woman you know and/or admire? (remember, time frame for this is 2000-2017, so it needs to be someone who lived then.)  That's the most important missing piece.
I like those sketches! And I think all those artists are good models. The strength and modernity of your woman comes from you. You don't have to stick to tightly to "Rococo" style--just the ideas and flavor plus your style are perfect.
And your grade has been change.

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Alexis, what a great idea! And this is just the most Rococo padlet wall imaginable! ;-)
In addition to looking at these delicious 18th century confections, you might also want to look at contemporary works by Kehinde Wiley and MICA's own Amy Sherald, particularly as they were just selected to do the official portraits of the Obamas for the National Portrait gallery. And who is the woman who will be the subject of the portrait? You? A family or friend? A public figure?
Looking forward to seeing a sketch.

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Instead of just a series of illustrations I want to do a large portrait painting, painted in similar settings/compositions of well known Baroque/Rococo artists like Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Francois Boucher and others. I feel as though illustrations wouldn't exactly capture the feel of a Rococo painting. I want to pay homage to the stylistic look to the era, but use brighter colors, as well as a Black woman as the subject of the portrait. I find the Rococo time period to be very beautiful, with all of the fancy luxuries that the rich indulged in, and how the art at the time showed that as well. It was depicted as a lively, soft and romantic time in the art that came from out of the era and it inspires me to want to recreate it but in my own way.

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Francois Boucher, 1703-1770. Madame de Pompadour, 1756, Rococo Movement

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Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1755-1842. Madame Grand, 1783, Rococo Movement

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Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1755-1842. Marie Antoinette With a Rose, 1783, Rococo Movement

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Jean-Honore Fragonard 1732-1806. The Shephardess, 1750-1752, Rococo Movement

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Jean-Honore Fragonard 1732-1806. The Swing, 1767, Rococo Movement

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I want to do an illustration project that involves a set of illustrations draw in similar settings/compositions of well known Baroque/Rococo artists like Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, and others. I just find that time period to be very beautiful, with all of the fancy luxuries that the rich indulged in, and how the art at the time showed that as well. It was depicted as a lively, soft and romantic time in the art that came from out of the era and it inspires me to want to recreate it but in my own way.

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May, Gita, and Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun. 2005. Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun: the odyssey of an artist in an age of revolution. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press.

Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun biography and her role as a female artist in this time era.

Charles, Victoria, and Klaus H. Carl. 2010. Rococo. New York: Parkstone International. http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=887049.

Background on Rococo art

Schroder, Anne L. "Fragonard's Later Career: The "Contes Et Nouvelles" and the Progress of Love Revisited." The Art Bulletin93, no. 2 (2011): 150-77. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23046591.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard biography.

NYTimes Article on Louise-Elisabeth

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This looks fine, Alexus. Yours is the first wall in the class!

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Great start. Looking for images too. If you have particular works--I think you mentioned Fragonard's"The Swing"?--you want to add them to the wall.